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RouteOne online: doing the BUSiness

— A little rework of a naff old website design from the days of tactile, bevelled headers and footers.”

The old RouteOne website

A new website for RouteOne, the leading publication in the Coach and Bus industry, is set to go live shortly.

My job was to turn the old offering – primarily a storefront for new registrations – into an accessible, readable editorial site to reflect the investment in design.

RouteOne was a great opportunity for me to follow up on my recent interest in the area of editorial design and I did a lot of research into what works.

The business of designing for a readership turned out to be a process of experimenting with subtlety, since content and continuity are the most important factors in getting the site to sit well with users. I think we’ve certainly achieved this, based on the results of the testing I did.

The new RouteOne website homepage

As ever, the site is put together with a CSS-based layout and on this project, a full stylesheet was devoted to the provision of the numerous editorial styles that should make RouteOne distinctive and highly readable.

I really enjoyed working on the new site, my first under the banner of our new business. I look forward to the desired results being achieved!